Hope you have a great New Years Weekend! I'm off to bid my sister good bye, its been fun to have her around for the holidays but now she must go back to school :(
...and I couldn't resist any longer! The texture is great, and I wanted something more appropriate for winter. As opposed to the bright yellow with flowers and birds & butterflies I had :)
I ordered the Sea Spray (there are 6 color options) and it was much more muted than I was expecting. It is definitely a shade of blue on the website, but in reality it is much more grey. My roommate actually thought it was white...that's how light it is!
But it still works well with the blue and green. And I absolutely love how the pin-tuck looks!
I'm hoping I'll get the pillow shams from Santa ;)
Wow, now that I look at this picture, the candle is really leaning...looks like its gonna try and take off! My type a personality is having issues with it! :)
The tree, plate & snowflake votive are all from Crate & Barrel...what can I say, I have an obsession! I love the colors in the plate and the votive's are bone china. The tree is just perfectly whimsy :)
The gold & silver baubles are from the dollar store...I need to go get some miniature ones to fill in the gaps, but I love the shimmer the metallics add!
I'm just hoping the turkey won't mind sharing his day with some play time in the snow! 
Very yummy! I actually bought peanut butter cups & peppermint bark candies!! They just seemed so much more Christmasie (that a word?)...I even broke out my santa clause hot pad :)Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
For the cookies:
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 squares (2 oz.) unsweetened chocolate
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter or shortening
2 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
For the garnish:
3/4 cup finely chopped peanuts
36 miniature Peanut Butter Cups, frozen and unwrapped
1 cup peanut butter baking chips
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 F. Combine chocolate in bowl and microwave at 50% for about 2 minutes, stir and repeat until smooth and melted. Cool slightly. Combine sugar and butter or shortening in large bowl. Beat at medium speed with electric mixer until blended and crumbly. Beat in eggs, one at a time, then salt and vanilla. Reduce speed to low. Add chocolate slowly. Mix until well blended. Stir in flour and soda with spoon until well blended. Shape dough into 1-1/4 inch balls. Roll in chopped peanuts. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until set. Press a frozen peanut butter cup into the center of each cookie immediately upon removing them from the oven. Press cookies up against peanut butter cup if desired for appearance, but do not touch the peanut butter cup again since it is now melted, it must remain intact. Cool completely. Melt the peanut butter chips and drizzle back and forth over the cookies using a parchment pouch or plastic bag with a little snip off the corner. Repeat with the chocolate, only drizzling at another angle from the peanut drizzle.
Here goes No. 2!
What ya think?
Here he is outside :) Yes, you all know what this means!! Pretty stinking cool!
